Clipping in youtube-dl

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Hello, thanks for this program, but there is a problem when downloading audio, such as music. YouTube-dl seems to introduce clipping by going over level. See this screenshot in Audacity of a file I tried recently:

https://imgur.com/a/X5eQY

This happens many times - I suspect the original files may not always be clipping (going into red). When I try recording manually in Audacity the waveforms are not only smaller but don't look clipped at the peaks in the same areas. What may be happening is youtube-dl is normalizing the audio by default? If so, please leave that off, or provide an option to disable it. I'd rather the volume levels match the original (whatever is uploaded).

The problem seems to be in YouTube-DL 0.4 GUI as well, where I first encountered it, but I tried the command line version tonight too.

Thanks,

Matt

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